The Writer’s Mindset: Escaping the Self-Doubt Trap
You stare at the screen. The sentence you loved last night now looks like it’s been mugged by your inner critic.Too dramatic, you think. Too flat. Too obvious. Too… something.…
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Finding Your Voice as a Writer – Boring Phrase You Have Heard…
Finding Your Voice as a Writer Let’s be honest: “Find your voice” has become one of those phrases that gets thrown around so often it’s started to sound like spiritual…
The Guru Paradox…
Why People Who Claim to Make Hundreds a Day Are Really Just Selling You the Dream You ever lie awake wondering how a guy who claims to make £500 a…
Why Starting at 60 Might Be Your Most Profitable Move Yet
There’s a particular flavour of condescension reserved for older people who want to make money online. You’ve probably tasted it already, that sugary, patronising tone that treats sixty-somethings like they’ve…
How to Improve Writing Skills (Without Losing Your Sanity or Your Voice)
Every writer I’ve ever met has a secret confession: we’re all slightly terrified we’ve forgotten how to write. It doesn’t matter how many articles you’ve published or how poetic your…
The Great American Trucker-English Crisis
The Scene of the Bureaucratic Crime Somewhere along the tangled interstate between Sacramento and Washington, a $40 million pile-up just occurred, not of metal, but of politics. At the wheel:…
The Uncomfortable Gift of Evaluate Your Life Day
(And Why Most People Will Ignore It) Tomorrow is Evaluate Your Life Day. Yes, really. October 19th. Someone, somewhere, decided we needed an official day to stop scrolling, put down…
The Unabomber Was Right (And That’s the Problem)
There’s a 35,000-word essay sitting on the internet that more people should have read before we built the world we’re living in now. The problem is, it was written by…
A Writer’s Kick-Butt Manifesto
Because sometimes the only thing standing between you and a good sentence… is your chair. Let’s be honest, most of us don’t need another productivity hack. We need a nudge,…
Long-Form Content in a Short-Form World?
Short-form content exploded and everyone lost their minds. Blog posts got binned. Deep-dive videos disappeared. Sales copy shrank down to taglines that said nothing. What was supposed to be a…